Philadephia Mayor: You have damaged your own race!

[Cuda]

PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Michael A. Nutter, telling marauding black youths “you have damaged your own race,” imposed a tougher curfew Monday in response to the latest “flash mob” — spontaneous groups of teens who attack people at random on the streets of the city’s tourist and fashionable shopping districts.

“Take those God-darn hoodies down, especially in the summer,” Mr. Nutter, the city’s third black mayor, said in an angry lecture aimed at black teens. “Pull your pants up and buy a belt ‘cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.”

“If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ‘cause you look like you’re crazy,” the mayor said. “You have damaged your own race.”

Doesn't look like they're listening to him...

[jiminphilly]

It fell on deaf ears. It was a church congregation of old ladies.

[Cosmo Kramer]

HEY HEY HEY what can I say??

The following is a speech that Bill Cosby gave on May 17th, 2004, to the NAACP.

They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain’t, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be… And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we’ve got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father?

People putting their clothes on backward: Isn’t that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn’t that a sign of something? Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn’t it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different ‘husbands’ — or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can’t write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

We cannot blame the white people any longer.

[smackaholic]

HEY HEY HEY what can I say??

The following is a speech that Bill Cosby gave on May 17th, 2004, to the NAACP.

They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain’t, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be… And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we’ve got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father?

People putting their clothes on backward: Isn’t that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn’t that a sign of something? Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn’t it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different ‘husbands’ — or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can’t write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

We cannot blame the white people any longer.

Rack Dr Cosby.

[Cuda]

you're doing it wrong

[Bizzarofelice]

if they do it right, TheArtist might print it out and fax it to their respective bosses.

[Invictus]

Rack Bace.

Advice from Cosby? Do white people take advice from say, Jerry Seinfeld? Steve Martin? Cosby, who is a known philanderer and has been sued multiple times by women alleging sexual misconduct, is addressing a group which lost its relevance in America 10 to 15 years ago and for Black America (there is one of those) 20 to 30 years ago. I went to an event many years ago where a local chapter of the NAACP was hosting the National President at that time, Kwesi Mfume. A co-worker, who was excitedly fawning over the President, dropped some food onto this man's very nice and expensive shoes and she got down on her hands and knees to clean his shoe. Mr. Mfume let her do that. I found his sense of entitlement, arrogance and lack of community disgusting and I laugh and chide others when they try to get me to join either the local or national chapter of mvscals, Apes, Alligators, Coons and Possums. (I stole that from a Klansman who said that in an episode of "Eyes On The Prize." Cuda, mvs, et. al., you can have that one on me!)

I love when people, black and white, use Cosby's speech and say it should be a rallying cry to/for blacks. Once I hear someone quote his angry vitriole, I glaze over, nod my head and look for a way to make a quick exit. He needs to go and speak to schools, churches, fuck how about the kids themselves and not old so-called leaders who have no connection to the colored folks they supposedly serve.

[War Wagon]

Shit.

Rack Vic.

[Bizzarofelice]

Is there a black america, vic?

vitriol

love, goby.

[Invictus]

There most certainly is Hammy.

It is a world of wide, flared Bropah-ish nostrils, grape soda, Cheetos and Kreyshawn devotees.

[R-Jack]

I laugh and chide others when they try to get me to join either the local or national chapter of mvscals, Apes, Alligators, Coons and Possums. (I stole that from a Klansman who said that in an episode of "Eyes On The Prize." Cuda, mvs, et. al., you can have that one on me!)

I always thought that Now Apes Are Called People was a little more clever to be honest with you.

[smackaholic]

There most certainly is Hammy.

It is a world of wide, flared Bropah-ish nostrils, grape soda, Cheetos and Kreyshawn devotees.

don't forget newports.

[Cuda]

There most certainly is Hammy.

It is a world of wide, flared Bropah-ish nostrils, grape soda, Cheetos and Kreyshawn devotees.

Do they still have 40's? Please say yes

[Cuda]

if they do it right, TheArtist might print it out and fax it to their respective bosses.

Larry did that?

I thought it was InkyDave

[Mikey]

Do white people take advice from say, Jerry Seinfeld? Steve Martin?

All the time, in fact.

And sometimes from Sean Penn, Bono and Yogi Berra (only wops, though).

I don't see the problem.

[mvscal]

Cosby, who is a known philanderer

So was Martin Luther King. Of course, the packs of feral nigggers roaming the streets today wouldn't listen to him either. They are unskilled, uneducated and unemployable. They are completely worthless, useless eaters. It's wasn't easy creating an entire generation of subhuman scum without a single redeeming human quality.

Keep voting democrat, idiot.

[Truman]

I love when people, black and white, use Cosby's speech and say it should be a rallying cry to/for blacks. Once I hear someone quote his angry vitriole, I glaze over, nod my head and look for a way to make a quick exit. He needs to go and speak to schools, churches, fuck how about the kids themselves and not old so-called leaders who have no connection to the colored folks they supposedly serve.

So you marginalize the messenger because you don't like the message? Since when is plain-spoken common sense "angry vitriol"? And I must've missed the part where you offered up a more appropriate solution...

Can't speak for other parts of the country, but Uncle Bill must've taken your suggestion to heart when spoke to an all-school assembly at Ruskin High School in south Kansas City last fall. I wan't there, of course, but I understand his message to the kids was similar to the one he delivered to the "so-called leaders who have no connection to the colored folks they supposedly serve". Might want to give Bill's words another read and let us know when you can do better...

[Goober McTuber]

http://www.channel3000.com/news/28839310/detail.html

I am fed up.

I'm tired of watching too many of our black youth behave like they don't possess any common sense. I'm not just talking about the incident at the Wisconsin State Fair last week, where mobs of young black teens harassed, intimidated and attacked fairgoers.

I'm talking about the increasing level of violence and lawlessness that has gone on in Milwaukee and has spread to Madison. I'm tired of stories after stories of young black men involved in criminal activity.

Please spare me the speeches about poverty, about how black youth are just misunderstood, or about the lack of opportunity in parts of the black community -- and most of all, how racism has contributed to why some have chosen to behave in this manner. I'm not buying it. Millions of black youth have grown up in some of the most disadvantaged surroundings possible without resorting to this type of behavior. When I was a kid, I certainly wasn't perfect. But if I were ever caught doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing, I would have felt the wrath of a very angry mother when I got home.

What's been happening in Milwaukee recently as well as in other cities around the country have nothing to do with racism. Unfortunately, there is a subsection of the black community that has no regard for other people, the law and themselves. And they and their parents are to blame.

The breakdown of the family is destroying the black community. We have allowed too many of our youth to run the streets unsupervised, with no discipline, no direction and no hope. Too many "fathers" have decided that the responsibility of raising their kids gets in the way of other selfish endeavors, so they become absent, leaving mothers to raise children alone. Many of these kids, thanks to strong mothers and positive influences like teachers and mentors, turn out to be positive, hardworking, law-abiding contributors to society. But sadly, many black youth, especially young boys, are raised on the streets. They're not taught personal responsibility for their behavior, and as a result they end up in the criminal justice system.

Too many of our so-called black leaders have failed to address this issue, instead choosing to run to every television camera they can get in front of, repeating the same old talking points about institutionalized racism. It's an insult to every single black man and woman who sacrificed his or her life to make ours better. They faced more racism than you or I can ever imagine. And this is how we repay them? By letting kids believe that there are no consequences for their actions as long as you can blame it on the white man and racism? By allowing too many young black men and women to believe that there's more value in serving time than getting an education? And instead of supporting those who stand up and speak out on the issue (Bill Cosby), we criticize them for airing out "dirty laundry." Well the secret is out, and it's not pretty. And it has to stop.

There is no doubt that a permanent black underclass has existed in Milwaukee and all over America for years, and the issue has never been fully addressed by politicians or civil rights leaders. But nothing justifies this type of behavior. In fact, once these thugs are caught, they and their parents should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Maybe that will start to send a message that we are done dealing with what they have failed to do.

I think that it's important to mention that there are many black people in Wisconsin and around the country that are on the front lines every single day doing great work with black youth. There are those who work with adults on how to be better parents. There are many organizations like the Urban League and 100 Black Men who are teaching people about the value of getting an education, economic development and empowerment. Those are the people and groups that all of us need to rally around. They need our support. They will always have a platform in this column and on my radio show.

As for the thugs and those that continue to make excuses for them, save it. No one's listening anymore.

[indyfrisco]

http://www.channel3000.com/news/28839310/detail.html

I'm surprised he didn't sign that article Marcus Allen. We've known that shit for years. The black community needs to have a civil war.

[Truman]

Kansas City Mayor Sly James vowed Sunday that he’d take steps to end large, nighttime gatherings of unsupervised teenagers and preteens on the Country Club Plaza by holding parents to account.

His announcement came a day after the Saturday night shooting that saw three youths wounded and the mayor forced to the ground by his security team. James, along with former Councilman Alvin Brooks and a group of ministers, was at the Plaza talking with kids and assessing the crowd problem in response to calls from Plaza owner Highwoods Properties and others to roll back the current midnight curfew on weekends to 9 p.m.

The shootings occurred shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday near 47th and Wyandotte streets. When shots rang out — witnesses reported hearing five or six — James was about 50 yards away. His two bodyguards pushed him to the ground and drew their guns.
“They basically forced me into the flowerbeds by the Cheesecake Factory,” James said.

He was uninjured. But two boys and a girl — 13, 15 and 16 years old — were wounded. A bullet grazed the girl’s face, and the two boys were shot in their legs, police said. None of the injuries was life-threatening. James said all three youths were in stable condition on Sunday.

Kansas City police continue to investigate the shootings and interview witnesses. Police believe some witnesses know the shooters’ identities but are reluctant to reveal their names.

The Plaza has been the scene of large crowds of underage people (read: black kids) both this year and last, mostly on warm weekend evenings in the spring, summer and fall. Some come to see a movie and others are there simply to hang out, James said.



The first notable occurrence was on April 10, 2010, when as many as 900 youths, some as young as 11, converged on the shopping and entertainment district that Saturday night. Police responded to reports of vandalism and assaults. One group of teens robbed and beat a couple from Grandview. A girl in a prom dress was shoved into a fountain. Fights broke out.

Police used pepper spray to disperse groups who refused to move along when instructed to do so.

(James) blamed parents for allowing their children to roam unattended late into the night at the Plaza and other gathering places in the city.

“We have a youth problem on the Plaza, but first and foremost we have a parent problem,” he said.

James said many of the kids he spoke with Saturday were from Wyandotte County, Grandview, Raymore and other suburbs, and had been dropped off by their parents. Any new plan of action the city develops, James said, needs to be aimed at getting the attention of parents who, he said, use the Plaza as “a babysitter.”

“How do we hold parents responsible?” he asked.

Among Plaza merchants who spoke with a reporter on Sunday there was a strong consensus that serious steps are needed to solve what they see as a serious problem.

“This isn’t the first time. There have been multiple shootings,” said Lydia Wade, 19, an employee at Cold Stone Creamery, citing an instance several weeks back in which gunshots were fired just west of the Plaza along 47th Street.

Wade said that only recently has she felt less safe and greater trepidation at the Plaza. Although Wade did not work this most recent Saturday night, she said she often does work the late Saturday night shift.

“Usually, Saturday nights, there are large groups of children who don’t even look like they should be on their own,” she said. “They’re out at, like, 11 p.m. They look like they’re 7 or 8 years old.”

She recalled one night seeing a band of what she estimated to be 20 to 40 teenagers and young children just walking together down the center of 47th Street.

“The police had to chase them out of the street,” she said.

On Saturday night, P.F. Chang’s manager Tony Hayman, 35, said he heard what he believed to be the first of at least six gunshots about 10:45 p.m. The doors to the restaurant had already been locked, he said, because of the late hour.

He said his first concern was to keep patrons inside as a mass of kids ran through the Plaza and police descended on horseback and in patrol cars. At least one helicopter hovered above.




“What really made it surreal was to see the yellow crime scene tape wrapped around the Plaza,” he said.

All open shops on the Plaza, he said, ended up closing early, including P.F. Chang’s.

“People were calling us and asking if there was a riot,” he said.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/14/30 ... z1V7auxvPj

[Goober McTuber]

All open shops on the Plaza, he said, ended up closing early, including P.F. Chang’s.

Kids should probably get a medal for that.

[Truman]

These don't suck:

[jiminphilly]

Like I said- Nutter's message fell on deaf ears..

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia police have arrested a male after he allegedly stabbed a teenage girl following a sponsored event at Erie Lanes Bowling Alley Saturday evening.

Corey Maxey, 18, was arrested without incident at his home in the 1300 block of N. 10th Street Sunday morning after police say he stabbed a 16-year-old girl in the hand the night before.

The “Teen Night” event at the bowling alley, where Mayor Michael Nutter bowled with teenagers in an effort to stop the violence, had just ended when several hundred teenagers were released in groups before heading home (see related story).


According to authorities, Maxey approached a female in another group walking toward Erie and Torresdale Avenues. He reportedly attempted to talk to the victim, but when she ignored him, he returned moments later and allegedly stabbed her in the arm with an unknown silver object.

The suspect then fled the area on foot, police said.

The victim was able to reach out to family members and call police. She was transported to St. Christopher’s Hospital for treatment and is in stable condition. Police said the victim claimed she knows the suspect.

During Maxey’s arrest, police recovered a small retractable knife blade from his home. Maxey is charged with Assault, Simple Assault and Terroristic threats.

Where is Frank Rizzo when you need him?

[Goober McTuber]

These don't suck:

Yes, they do. They are precisely what I had in mind. They suck in several different languages.

[Truman]

Meh. Don't be so close minded, Goobs. Click the link and try 'em. It ain't like I'm askin' you to eat your peas...

[Goober McTuber]

Yes, they do. They are precisely what I had in mind. They suck in several different languages.

Meh. Don't be so close minded, Goobs. Click the link and try 'em. It ain't like I'm askin' you to eat your peas...

Most non-KC natives would assume from my post that I’VE ALREADY FUCKING TRIED THEM. Might as well just throw back shot glasses of soy sauce. A mildly interesting idea poorly executed.

[Truman]

Yes, they do. They are precisely what I had in mind. They suck in several different languages.

Meh. Don't be so close minded, Goobs. Click the link and try 'em. It ain't like I'm askin' you to eat your peas...

Most non-KC natives would assume from my post that I’VE ALREADY FUCKING TRIED THEM. Might as well just throw back shot glasses of soy sauce. A mildly interesting idea poorly executed.

No, most non-KC natives and residents alike that have made this recipe at home would assume from your post that you don't know what the fuck you're doing. Which really isn't much of an assumption.

[Goober McTuber]

Meh. Don't be so close minded, Goobs. Click the link and try 'em. It ain't like I'm askin' you to eat your peas...

Most non-KC natives would assume from my post that I’VE ALREADY FUCKING TRIED THEM. Might as well just throw back shot glasses of soy sauce. A mildly interesting idea poorly executed.

No, most non-KC natives and residents alike that have made this recipe at home would assume from your post that you don't know what the fuck you're doing. Which really isn't much of an assumption.

Well, seeing as you linked me up with a P F Chang recipe, I assumed you were talking about their lettuce wraps. Which suck out loud. I have no doubt that I can take that recipe and make it edible. Just for you, Truman, it’s on my to do list.

[Truman]

Well, seeing as you linked me up with a P F Chang recipe, I assumed you were talking about their lettuce wraps. Which suck out loud. I have no doubt that I can take that recipe and make it edible. Just for you, Truman, it’s on my to do list.

Atta boy, Goobs! That's the spirit! Maybe a brat bun or cheese curds will make that recipe more palatable to you...

[Goober McTuber]

Well, seeing as you linked me up with a P F Chang recipe, I assumed you were talking about their lettuce wraps. Which suck out loud. I have no doubt that I can take that recipe and make it edible. Just for you, Truman, it’s on my to do list.

Atta boy, Goobs! That's the spirit! Maybe a brat bun or cheese curds will make that recipe more palatable to you...

I was thinking a little more depth of flavor, you fucking hillbilly. What they served me at P F Changs was harsh and nasty. But just about what I'd expect at a chain. I suppose when Truman wants to take his sister/wife out for some sit-down vittles, it comes down to P F Changs, Applebees or the Golden Corral.

If I want to eat Chinese we have a local eatery called Imperial Garden. Been around for years and it's decent, dependable and reasonable. But if I have a taste for Asian food, I guess I’d go with Ha Long Bay. Thai, Vietnamese and Laotian. A fairly extensive menu:

http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/214/1472709 ... ay-Madison

[War Wagon]

The Plaza has been the scene of large crowds of underage people (read: nigggers) both this year and last, mostly on warm weekend evenings in the spring, summer and fall. Some come to see a movie...

Fixed.

Shaneequa and Jamoolie damn sure aren't going to the Plaza to see a movie. They are there to see what they can steal. And if they can't steal it, break it.

[Kansas City Kid]

Well, seeing as you linked me up with a P F Chang recipe, I assumed you were talking about their lettuce wraps. Which suck out loud. I have no doubt that I can take that recipe and make it edible. Just for you, Truman, it’s on my to do list.

Atta boy, Goobs! That's the spirit! Maybe a brat bun or cheese curds will make that recipe more palatable to you...

I was thinking a little more depth of flavor, you fucking hillbilly. What they served me at P F Changs was harsh and nasty. But just about what I'd expect at a chain. I suppose when Truman wants to take his sister/wife out for some sit-down vittles, it comes down to P F Changs, Applebees or the Golden Corral.

If I want to eat Chinese we have a local eatery called Imperial Garden. Been around for years and it's decent, dependable and reasonable. But if I have a taste for Asian food, I guess I’d go with Ha Long Bay. Thai, Vietnamese and Laotian. A fairly extensive menu:

http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/214/1472709 ... ay-Madison

Don't you just snack on huge bags of dicks?

[Screw_Michigan]

Flash mob robbery in suburban DC.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local ... 26853.html

[smackaholic]

I hope your laundry room gets flash mobbed.

[Goober McTuber]

Don't you just snack on huge bags of dicks?

Only in your sick little dreams, tubby. Now run along, you fat fucking retard.

[Dinsdale]

Wait... a bunch of Gro's hanging out at the big mall and shooting it up is a big deal in KC?

Pretty frequent occurence around here.

[Cuda]

Wait... a bunch of Gro's hanging out at the big mall and shooting it up is a big deal in KC?

Pretty frequent occurence around here.

I thought the video was from Philly, but KC explains a lot! The dirt roads for one...

watch it & laugh again

i did, imo

[Truman]

Lemme get this straight:

You live in a high desert shit hole where not only does the population live under daily fire danger warnings and the mortal fear of errant sparks from backyard firepits and barbecue grills that threaten to burn your cess pool even flatter, you losers have to travel outside the city limits just to catch a glimpse of a tree, much less a hill, due to the smog that perennially inhabits that god-for-saken backwater bowl you people call a town, and you’re running city-smack? Kindly unfuck yourself, Cuda. Dick.

[War Wagon]

I lifted this post from a Facebook friend I've worked with for 15 years... a big burly black man, welder by trade. So whenever I'm tempted to lump all blacks in with hoodrats, I try to check myself.

KC's curfew solution: Let's start a flash mob of GROWN UPS roaming around the city with belts. Any teenager we see out of line, just start whooping that ass, drive-by whoopings! Just drive up to a teenager, jump out of the car & start tearing that @ss up... ol' skool style! Didn't .. I .. tell .. yo .. @ss.. not.. to .. be .. in .. the .. streets .. acting .. like .. you .. weren't .. raised .. right!

[Kansas City Kid]

Don't you just snack on huge bags of dicks?

Only in your sick little dreams, tubby. Now run along, you fat fucking retard.

More IKYABWAI "smack" from you?